In every movie since Five, someone has a crazy action set piece where, in real life if a person would do it, they would not shut up about it for the entire movie. "No no no, I don't think you understand Dom. I FREAKING JUMPED OUT OF THAT BUS BEFORE IT FELL OFF THE CLIFF AND GRABBED LETTY'S CAR HANDLE BAR THING AND HOLY CRAP I ALMOST DIED--" But in these movies they don't even ACKNOWLEDGE that what they did was hard. They basically walk away from every crazy setpiece with a swagger that's basically them scoffing at the universe like, "Yeah, I did that. And I could do it thirty times in a row with my eyes closed. Gimme a corona" god i love these movies.
Just here to say, in retrospect the ending of your comment where you say "Gimme a corona" is probably why the pandemic happened and I fault you for it.
In the most recent trailer, he manages to grab and redirect a torpedo with his bare hands. At this point, it's probably better to just look at the F&F movies as a superhero series with the costumes taken out.
I actually really appreciate seeing someone explain the appeal of something that isn't considered "artsy". I think it's a real gap in our art appreciation culture.
“Bring Han back!” “They should go into space. Specifically, I wanna see Tej driving a car in space.” Universal: write that down, write that down! The prophecy has been fulfilled, Patrick
I still think it’s amazing how Justin Lin basically snuck a character from his debut indie film into being a main character of a major action franchise. Absolute king move.
@@NelsonStJames I think they are getting there. I mean...the island explodes while Chriss Pratt has to crawl his half-sedated body away from lava, little girl gets cloned, dinosaurs get auctioned to rich guys by Donald Trump and there's a hybrid you can control with a laser pointer is pretty damn bonkers. Was FALLEN KINGDOM anywhere near the depth of the first one? No, but what is? It's fun as hell andlooks great and the next one will have dinosaurs runnign around freely. TBH, I am down
There was a tweet about that: Fast & Furious 12: New Guy: "Wait, where are the cars" The Rock: [smiles] "We are the cars" *they transform into cars* Dominic Toretto: “Nah. I run on... Diesel.” *he transforms into a truck* TITLE: Fast & Furious 12: They’re Cars Now
Man I was going with Time of the Furious for the inevitable time travel instalment, but The Past and The Furious is GREAT (Number 10 can be FAST X FURIOUS)
Ahhh so close! I'm from a town on the Tipp/Clare border meself, mam is from Clare too so that must be it. Anywho hope she's well, love your videos man. :)
After watching F9 the end of this video hits different. "Ideas for the last movies, I wanna see Tej drive a car in space. Bring Han Back" Now all we need is cars outrunning a nuclear explosion and jumping a car between two planes in the air and you pretty much wrote the last few movies. Did you get a writing credit of F9 Patrick?
Man, seriously, this is low key one of my favorite channels on UA-cam. I didn't expect to agree with everything you said here, but alas, here we are. I really like Tokyo Drift as well, and while I think it's the most different (and probably somewhat worse acted), I think it's probably the best, eh... movie? I mean, I really like Fast Five and onward on the "dumb but sincere fun and action epicness" aspect, but I quite honestly like the way Tokyo Drift is crafted as a story, which you explain really well using the Kung Fu film analogy. I suck at staying social online and commenting on the videos I love, but I just wanted to let you know that this channel just keeps getting better and better, and I hope to eventually make content at least half as good as what you're producing. Awesome video!
Thanks! I really appreciate it. And yeah, Tokyo Drift is like the stealth great movie in the series. It's fairly formulaic in terms of high school sports movies but it's REALLY well executed. I like it more every time I watch it. Man, Justin Lin did wonders for that series.
It's easier for me to find weaknesses than strengths, so I'll start: Weaknesses: main char is rather stupid, poorly acted, learns how to drift but doesn't develop as a char, plot doesn't make much sense, races could be cooler, weak romance Strengths: the visuals, the setting, the colorful host of characters, HAN!, cool factor makes me feel like a kid again
Disagree with your cons there Harry. From a car guy point of view, the races in Tokyo Drift are the best races in the franchise. They use the most technical driving, using all real cars, doing practical stunts mostly with pretty standard drift cars (other than the crashes). I also think they're pretty spectacular visually. The chases in the later movies are heaps of fun, but they've given up on any pretence of the down to earth racing you get in Tokyo Drift. The main character is stupid but I dunno why that's even a con? He's obviously supposed to be a bit dumb, and Lucas Black does a passable job portraying the perfect amount of Derp. Unless you mean the concept of the character is stupid, which I disagree with. Though yeah he doesn't develop much as a character, but he does finally get out from under his parents and I guess learns to be less of a fuck up? I guess? My con list: Not enough drifting! Romance has very little chemistry (agree there). Some of the writing is very clumsy, especially as delivered by Nathalie Kelley. That might have something to do with her Australian accent though (I'm Australian, hearing my accent in American movies can be very jarring for me). No callbacks or references to the Mid Night Club. There isn't a Tokyo Drift 2 (They could totally do a spin off series). Pros: Everything else. Keiichi Tsuchiya is in it for crying out loud!
I always adored the first three movies because they so perfectly encapsulated the zeigeist of mid-2000s mid-america wannabe-gangster culture. It so directly spoke to what my experiences growing up were, they're like the movie version of that story you wrote when you were 15 and burned all the copies of when you were 16. As a result, I stopped after watching 4 in theaters, thinking the series had lost what I loved. After seeing 7, I realized the series has evolved into an a-musical American version of Bollywood action movies, and I have to love it for that.
I love watching this 4 years later and seeing how so much has come true in your predictions , I feel like by fast 11 they'll all be included, like they're using this video as a reference
Fucking beautiful, I'm so happy someone finally stood up and defended these movies for the unique cinematic journey they give. I'm actually planning to make a sort of analysis of the series on my own, so this video is a good example of some of the elements I should examine. Keep it up!
This might be your masterpiece. The road you took to your F&F love is almost point-for-point my experience. Never would I have imagined in 2001 that this would become one of my favorite franchises.
This is an amazing channel, I watched Tokyo Drift long time back. And that scene with Han looking over the balcony had something deep about it, like a nice painting.
Tokyo Drift I feel was set up like a lot of anime today. An outcast hero who trains and finds acknowledgement on something other than his crimes or mistakes.
Man, I discovered your channel just this week, watching the wes anderson x-men (that I really wish that FOX come up with it someday!) and since then I can´t stop watching your channel! In this video you even made me want to come back watching FAST & FURIOUS (a franchise that I let go long ago). Congrats on your channel! Greetings from Brazil!
I think I'm finally convinced to start watching these movies. I kept hearing people say this was a superhero movie, but with cars. This has pushed me over the edge to check it out... As soon as the semester's over.
The guy I took care of binge watched them all. I started watching merely as "something to do", but by the time they did a ~20min sequence inside a perpetually taking off airplane, I was freaking hooked...
Like a Harry Potter franchise, FF was a true discovery to me too. I thought it was a macho cars flicks but actually it is a dying genre of AAA blockbusters with a good plot and believable heroes. I was at the edge of my seat at plane chase in 6-th. First time in 5 years.
haha, that'll be dope AF but i meant the chatting commentary comedy bit type thing you just did. i love everything you do especially the video essays but this should be a series type thing of it'a own.
Man my friends and I had a long discussion about what we want in the sequels and you said pretty much everything I did except I want the movies to somehow crossover with Speed and get Keanu Reeves in there.
Have a sequel where the Rock retires and becomes a lifeguard for Baywatch. But Toretto is dragged into a job down at the beach. This way we'd have not only the ensemble cast, but also the hilariously idiotic Zac Efron. We could call it Furious 9: The Miami Heat. Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron could all make a cameo. It'd be a beautiful just like old times moment
It's so great to finally hear something about movies like Fast and the Furious! These days all you can hear about our superhero movies(no that i have anything against them! I really love them) Also, I'm surprised how one can talk about Tokya Drift without mentioning that awesome scene drifting through the crowd during the car chase before Han dies! That scene gives me the chills everytime!
"The Past of the Furious" cracked me up! Hey tweet it to someone on the writers team, and maybe we have number 9 right there :D btw my favourite video of yours to date, really funny and i couldn't agree with you more!
Fast Five is my fav movie bc that's when it just starts getting nuts, like Dom uses the forward momentum in his car to crash it into the side of a highway so that he can jump, catch Letty mid-air, and land on the hood of another car. At the time it was the best thing I'd ever seen but they've only gotten wilder since then. I was gonna say I recommend the entire series purely for the scene where the rock literally flexes his cast off but there's so many ridiculous moments to unpack besides that. The casts for these movies literally just keep getting better and better (and they're incredibly diverse so other franchises have no excuse). So yes bring Han back and also C-Tates, that's something I didn't know I needed until now. Thanks for saying literally everything in defense I've ever thought abt these movies
How about, in this one, Charlize Theron loses her arm, and that's how she becomes Furiosa? The next movie: The Fast and the Furiosa. Finish with the full-blown crossover: The Fast and the Fury Road.
Alright, you made me want to watch these movies. Yet, if you had pitched this to me with any other framing device, I'm not sure you'd have convinced me. The tone you set just matches my expectations for the series so well.
You’re the reason I’ve been obsessed with the fast and furious franchise for the past year. I own every movie and they’re my favourite thing in the world now. My friend Gavin and I even plan to watch them all together in a couple weeks so we can write the 10th. I’ve literally gotten dates by talking about the fast and furious. You’ve literally made my life better by showing me how amazing these movies are, and I am incredibly grateful for that. Thank you.
I am so happy I found you and this video. My friends always made fun of me for liking this franchise. Especially when I told them just how much I love the scene that has to happen in every fast & the furious movie, the sequence with the cars, the girls and the music. I still have to find the video that reunites them all, from the first to the last movie.
CastlesComments They should save Gisele (Gal Gadot). If they save Gisele, then she and Han can go to Tokyo together and they save Han from past Deckard and Deckard could fight himself.
So many great ideas in that last part. Riding on multiple rooftops, Space. And the mind-blowing that is "Past and the Furious". MAKE THIS HAPPEN UNIVERSAL!!!
There's going to be 10 of these?! Thought they were gonna call it quits after this one. Can't complain though, Fast8 actually left me wanting for more, best set-pieces in the entire franchise.
I love all these movies. I'm such a big fan of the Fast and Furious movies. They're really fun action movies. And it's one of the few long-running blockbuster franchises that has nothing to do with superheroes. And I know you guys may not ask for it, but here's my thoughts on all 7 movies; The Fast and The Furious- I like this movie, it's what got me into the franchise in the first place. Plus, it's a much better Point Break remake than the _actual_ 2015 remake. 2 Fast 2 Furious- My least favorite movie in the franchise. Bad Boys II was much better. But I still liked it, regardless. The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift- Out of all the crappy movies I saw in 2007, this felt like a _godsend_ to me. Sure, it wasn't great, but I prefer this over something like Ghost Rider or Alvin and the Chipmunks, ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. Fast and Furious- Again, like with 2007, 2009 had a lot of crap movies, but this is one of the better ones. While many people hate it, I still liked it. Fast Five- An amazing movie that was one of my favorite movies of 2011. Awesomeness from beginning to end. Fast & Furious 6- Everything I liked about Five, but turned up to Eleven. My favorite movie of 2013, in a long list of movies in 2013 that I liked (and no, Frozen is _NOT_ one of them) Seriously, that flip car was fucking awesome. Furious 7- My favorite movie ever. This movie right here, is my Terminator 2. It's so fucking awesome. So many awesome action stuff and the Paul Walker tribute was one of the most heartwarming things I have ever seen in 2015. I'm so excited for Fate of the Furious and I can't wait to see it, when it comes out. Edit: Tokyo Drift came out in 2006, my mistake.
+Matthew Cool Awesome, I have the same thoughts. I love the Fast and Furious movies, they're total guilty pleasures to me. I love everything about them.
Thank you so much for making this video!!! I have been extolling the self aware, sincere goofy virtues of this series since the fifth one sank its hooks into me. Hopefully this video will help me make more converts :D
Ending this with Rest of my life is such a nice touch. Reminds me of that one semester at Uni after F6 released where this was our hymn to start off a night out.
I have not been able to make it through a single F&F film. No snob here, I love awful movies. I just... can't. I did however watch this whole video. I watched an entire video about movies I haven't seen because I cannot sit through them. That is a powerful testament. I loved this video, it is pretty much perfect. You are talented. Liked, subscribed, shared.
Thank for expressing my thoughts on the surrealism of this franchise. Seriously, it should be study in film school - not because it's great, but because it's such a bizarre outlier in the path taken by 99% of movie franchises. P.S. Just discovered this channel recently (thanks, UA-cam recommendation algorithm) and quite enjoy it. I have subscribed.
8:04 - 8:16 It hit my mind the moment I heard The Rock will be in Fast Five. You sure know how to flesh out film franchises Patrick H. Willems. Have you done it on classics e.g., The Godfather, Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pulp Fiction? Would love to see it.
I was ignoring this series for long time until my mother send me FF8 trailer and start telling me how awesome this is. So, like 2 week ago, we made full marathon, with Tokio Drift after FF6 and holy shit I LOVE THIS Cars, stunts, goofyness, family moments, characters (seriously Han
OK man, I've found your channel recently but I'm a big fan already. I must say, you made me want to see this movies... now that's something for the books.
I used to watch Fast and Furious with my cousin who was obsessed with cars. But I haven't seen any since 3. You actually made me want to watch them now.
Vinicius Moura Hmm... I don't know, Kylo Ren's lightsaber impaled his chest and he fell down a ventilation shaft of a soon-to-be-destroyed planet. There's no way that Han would come back from that.
I agree 100%!!!. I started watching 1 to 5 in 2011 and i love the heist style in fast 5. Thats where they really started shining big time. So stoked for 9 and 10. Not every franchise has to be realistic and deep. It knows what it is and its great entertainment. Such a fun summer franchise!
Yo, this series. This was one of those videos for me, man, where I was embarrassed the whole time about how much I agree with what you're saying. Tokyo Drift really does get a bum rap (although imo ppl who claim it's the secret best are over-correcting). These movies really are at their best when they're *sincere*, but not *serious*. Han really is the best character. The first movie really is a Point Break ripoff, but the fifth movie is an even more egregious of a ripoff of Oceans 11... with the BIG caveat that it's waaay more entertaining than the movie it's ripping off! So theft justified, IMO! Oh: 5 > 6 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 7 > 4
I actually don't think 5 is all that much of an Ocean's 11 rip. Assembling a big crew for a job is like every heist movie ever. If the villain was dating Letty and Dom was trying to get her back, THEN it would be an actual ripoff. Also, 2 Fast in third? Bold statement.
"Ripoff" is strong, and I'll disclaim all this by reiterating that I like Fast 5 significantly more than Oceans 11, and that these are playful observations not accusations of plagiarism or anything. But after re-watching both I was surprised at a lot of conspicuous similarities. It's not just the big story elements, like how they both rewind at the end to explain the safe/vault switch as Dwayne Johnson/Andy García pieces things together. It's also in little moments, and in side characters: Leo and Santos are essentially Puerto Rican mirror universe versions of the Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk. And both movies have RC car sequences played mostly for laughs. And yes, I'm aware that my placement of 2 is controversial. But I enjoy these movies most when they keep the soap opera melodrama brief and sweet, and 2 Fast sidesteps that whole issue by having no melodrama at all.
Oh wow, I didn't even notice any of those connections. Maybe Chris Morgan DID just watch Ocean's 11 before writing and used a bunch of ideas. And honestly if he wants to just keep taking inspiration from Soderbergh movies, that's cool with me. (I also really love the Ocean's movies)
Justice is coming
bruh, you predicted that Han will return!!! Or I guess they were like, "WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
Wait you commented here after this video came out and way in the future, so you came back because of .. HANN!!!!
Patrick (H) Willems yep
the rock didn't throw a car but vindiesel caught a car
Jerry Luo the best thing about the fast and furious franchise is that there's no logic
All I want is for the 10th film to be called FasTen Your Seatbelt
This is a genius idea
PicklesRTasty Mind blown LOL
This made my day! Thank you!
Then it's just a safety driving course
and stealing DVD-players.
"I want to see Tej driving a car in space" - Time traveller detected
"Bring Han back". I'm pretty sure Patrick is actually writing these films.
@@zandytheaxiom8015 XD
Ohh.. so "Chris Morgan" is really Patrick! it all makes sense now! 😆😲🤯
In every movie since Five, someone has a crazy action set piece where, in real life if a person would do it, they would not shut up about it for the entire movie. "No no no, I don't think you understand Dom. I FREAKING JUMPED OUT OF THAT BUS BEFORE IT FELL OFF THE CLIFF AND GRABBED LETTY'S CAR HANDLE BAR THING AND HOLY CRAP I ALMOST DIED--"
But in these movies they don't even ACKNOWLEDGE that what they did was hard. They basically walk away from every crazy setpiece with a swagger that's basically them scoffing at the universe like, "Yeah, I did that. And I could do it thirty times in a row with my eyes closed. Gimme a corona"
god i love these movies.
Yes. This 100%.
Just here to say, in retrospect the ending of your comment where you say "Gimme a corona" is probably why the pandemic happened and I fault you for it.
Just watched F9 and we finally get whole scenes based around this idea!
GIVE ME A CORONA LMFAO I ROLLING
@@gregstephensI think that's why I hated it😭
"at some point The Rock sould throw a car at somebody" i can't stop laughing at this
If Vin could kick the ground and fucking crack it and cause a building to collapse, The Rock could throw a fucking car easily.
In the most recent trailer, he manages to grab and redirect a torpedo with his bare hands. At this point, it's probably better to just look at the F&F movies as a superhero series with the costumes taken out.
I lost it at "The past of the Furious"
Reuel Cardoso I'd watch that.have him throw an smart car.
That whole part cracked me up soooo much!!! They should bring back some of the cast from Tokyo Drift too... lol!!!
I actually really appreciate seeing someone explain the appeal of something that isn't considered "artsy". I think it's a real gap in our art appreciation culture.
The Past and the Furious is such a disgustingly wonderful movie title. Well done.
They drove so fast they broke the timeline
The Flash and the Furious.
I think you should do a series where you just explain movies/franchises in this fashion
I was thinking that as well. I could definitely use this same format with new topics.
personally id do the twilight franchise and give your take
I don't think Patrick's liver could handle a regular series of this.
Especially the Xmen series.
so this is where it began huh?
"I want to see Tej driving a car in space" He knew
“Bring Han back!”
“They should go into space. Specifically, I wanna see Tej driving a car in space.”
Universal: write that down, write that down!
The prophecy has been fulfilled, Patrick
Makes you wonder what's going to happen in 10. Tombstone reunion?
The 11th film should be 30 years in the future: The Slow and the Courteous.
I still think it’s amazing how Justin Lin basically snuck a character from his debut indie film into being a main character of a major action franchise. Absolute king move.
Once the series embraced its ridiculousness (5) it really started to shine through
Yup
Before Avengers, there was Fast Five
The is really what the Jurassic Park movies need to do at this point.
@@NelsonStJames I think they are getting there. I mean...the island explodes while Chriss Pratt has to crawl his half-sedated body away from lava, little girl gets cloned, dinosaurs get auctioned to rich guys by Donald Trump and there's a hybrid you can control with a laser pointer is pretty damn bonkers.
Was FALLEN KINGDOM anywhere near the depth of the first one? No, but what is? It's fun as hell andlooks great and the next one will have dinosaurs runnign around freely. TBH, I am down
There was a tweet about that:
Fast & Furious 12:
New Guy: "Wait, where are the cars"
The Rock: [smiles] "We are the cars"
*they transform into cars*
Dominic Toretto: “Nah. I run on... Diesel.”
*he transforms into a truck*
TITLE:
Fast & Furious 12: They’re Cars Now
reading this, I have forgotten who Kubrick and Scorsese are, because this is actual true art
I was hoping they'd name the ninth one "F9ally Furious."
😂😂😂
Man I was going with Time of the Furious for the inevitable time travel instalment, but The Past and The Furious is GREAT
(Number 10 can be FAST X FURIOUS)
(Also where in Ireland is your mam from, sounds almost Tipperary?)
Good catch! She's actually from Clare
Ahhh so close! I'm from a town on the Tipp/Clare border meself, mam is from Clare too so that must be it. Anywho hope she's well, love your videos man. :)
Thanks! Always great to hear from folks in Ireland.
I'd pay to see that.
I have been telling people this since the third movie. Luckily Julia listened and since then has seen every Fast and Furious movie.
YES! You guys rule.
After watching F9 the end of this video hits different. "Ideas for the last movies, I wanna see Tej drive a car in space. Bring Han Back" Now all we need is cars outrunning a nuclear explosion and jumping a car between two planes in the air and you pretty much wrote the last few movies. Did you get a writing credit of F9 Patrick?
Man, seriously, this is low key one of my favorite channels on UA-cam. I didn't expect to agree with everything you said here, but alas, here we are.
I really like Tokyo Drift as well, and while I think it's the most different (and probably somewhat worse acted), I think it's probably the best, eh... movie?
I mean, I really like Fast Five and onward on the "dumb but sincere fun and action epicness" aspect, but I quite honestly like the way Tokyo Drift is crafted as a story, which you explain really well using the Kung Fu film analogy.
I suck at staying social online and commenting on the videos I love, but I just wanted to let you know that this channel just keeps getting better and better, and I hope to eventually make content at least half as good as what you're producing.
Awesome video!
Thanks! I really appreciate it. And yeah, Tokyo Drift is like the stealth great movie in the series. It's fairly formulaic in terms of high school sports movies but it's REALLY well executed. I like it more every time I watch it. Man, Justin Lin did wonders for that series.
Agreed. Han is the best character.
It's easier for me to find weaknesses than strengths, so I'll start:
Weaknesses: main char is rather stupid, poorly acted, learns how to drift but doesn't develop as a char, plot doesn't make much sense, races could be cooler, weak romance
Strengths: the visuals, the setting, the colorful host of characters, HAN!, cool factor makes me feel like a kid again
phew, just making sure you listed Han as a pro and not a con... otherwise i would get the pitchforks ready
Disagree with your cons there Harry. From a car guy point of view, the races in Tokyo Drift are the best races in the franchise. They use the most technical driving, using all real cars, doing practical stunts mostly with pretty standard drift cars (other than the crashes). I also think they're pretty spectacular visually. The chases in the later movies are heaps of fun, but they've given up on any pretence of the down to earth racing you get in Tokyo Drift.
The main character is stupid but I dunno why that's even a con? He's obviously supposed to be a bit dumb, and Lucas Black does a passable job portraying the perfect amount of Derp. Unless you mean the concept of the character is stupid, which I disagree with.
Though yeah he doesn't develop much as a character, but he does finally get out from under his parents and I guess learns to be less of a fuck up? I guess?
My con list: Not enough drifting! Romance has very little chemistry (agree there). Some of the writing is very clumsy, especially as delivered by Nathalie Kelley. That might have something to do with her Australian accent though (I'm Australian, hearing my accent in American movies can be very jarring for me). No callbacks or references to the Mid Night Club. There isn't a Tokyo Drift 2 (They could totally do a spin off series).
Pros: Everything else. Keiichi Tsuchiya is in it for crying out loud!
“Axe body spray oceans 11” probably the best ting I’ve ever heard.
I always adored the first three movies because they so perfectly encapsulated the zeigeist of mid-2000s mid-america wannabe-gangster culture. It so directly spoke to what my experiences growing up were, they're like the movie version of that story you wrote when you were 15 and burned all the copies of when you were 16. As a result, I stopped after watching 4 in theaters, thinking the series had lost what I loved. After seeing 7, I realized the series has evolved into an a-musical American version of Bollywood action movies, and I have to love it for that.
I love watching this 4 years later and seeing how so much has come true in your predictions , I feel like by fast 11 they'll all be included, like they're using this video as a reference
you called the space thing. spot on.
Thank you. I love, love, love this franchise. It’s my go to guilty pleasure series.
Fucking beautiful, I'm so happy someone finally stood up and defended these movies for the unique cinematic journey they give. I'm actually planning to make a sort of analysis of the series on my own, so this video is a good example of some of the elements I should examine. Keep it up!
This might be your masterpiece. The road you took to your F&F love is almost point-for-point my experience. Never would I have imagined in 2001 that this would become one of my favorite franchises.
‘Bring Han back.’
Well, they listened.
I’ve never watched a single one of these movies but I got actual chills “The Past of the Furious.”
This is an amazing channel, I watched Tokyo Drift long time back. And that scene with Han looking over the balcony had something deep about it, like a nice painting.
Tokyo Drift is probably the best looking movie in the series.
Tokyo Drift I feel was set up like a lot of anime today. An outcast hero who trains and finds acknowledgement on something other than his crimes or mistakes.
good point, i agree
Just Watched F9... Cars in space. Hans back. Evil -clone- brother. It's all your fault. I loved it.
".. and The Rock throwing *torpedos* with his bare hand .." :))))))))))
dude this video essay is so freaking awesome. love how you combine a funny narrative with an explainer. Keep up the great work!
3:18 I never thought of that before, but everything you said here makes a whole lotta sense
I haven't seen any of these movies, but I loved watching you geek out over them.
Man, I discovered your channel just this week, watching the wes anderson x-men (that I really wish that FOX come up with it someday!) and since then I can´t stop watching your channel! In this video you even made me want to come back watching FAST & FURIOUS (a franchise that I let go long ago). Congrats on your channel! Greetings from Brazil!
I think I'm finally convinced to start watching these movies. I kept hearing people say this was a superhero movie, but with cars. This has pushed me over the edge to check it out... As soon as the semester's over.
I'm so incredibly happy my friend showed me your videos. Time for some binging.
The guy I took care of binge watched them all. I started watching merely as "something to do", but by the time they did a ~20min sequence inside a perpetually taking off airplane, I was freaking hooked...
It's the longest runway ever!
This was amazing. I'm glad these movies exist if for no other reason than to give you an excuse to make this video. Fabulous.
Like a Harry Potter franchise, FF was a true discovery to me too. I thought it was a macho cars flicks but actually it is a dying genre of AAA blockbusters with a good plot and believable heroes. I was at the edge of my seat at plane chase in 6-th. First time in 5 years.
PHW deserves a screenwriting credit in F9:
* Bring Han back (12m42s) --- check.
* Roman & Tej "driving" a car in space (12m25s) --- check.
I was laughing with the final recommendations... then I realized that they are actually possible!
The brought Han back!
Great video! So fun to see your parents in the video :D
continue this path and you might be the best channel on my list
From now on it's all Fast & Furious videos all the time
haha, that'll be dope AF but i meant the chatting commentary comedy bit type thing you just did. i love everything you do especially the video essays but this should be a series type thing of it'a own.
Thanks, man. I was thinking the same thing. There will definitely be more of these.
well, that whole "bring back han" thing worked out.
Man my friends and I had a long discussion about what we want in the sequels and you said pretty much everything I did except I want the movies to somehow crossover with Speed and get Keanu Reeves in there.
Have a sequel where the Rock retires and becomes a lifeguard for Baywatch. But Toretto is dragged into a job down at the beach. This way we'd have not only the ensemble cast, but also the hilariously idiotic Zac Efron. We could call it Furious 9: The Miami Heat. Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron could all make a cameo. It'd be a beautiful just like old times moment
I would watch that in a heartbeat.
That'd be cool. I would love to see F&F return to Miami.
The filmmakers definitely watched this before F9 😂
It's so great to finally hear something about movies like Fast and the Furious! These days all you can hear about our superhero movies(no that i have anything against them! I really love them)
Also, I'm surprised how one can talk about Tokya Drift without mentioning that awesome scene drifting through the crowd during the car chase before Han dies! That scene gives me the chills everytime!
"The Past of the Furious" cracked me up! Hey tweet it to someone on the writers team, and maybe we have number 9 right there :D btw my favourite video of yours to date, really funny and i couldn't agree with you more!
Commenting from the future, glad to know how many of Patrick's wish list items got fulfilled.
FAST FIVE IS SO FUCKING GOOD
YES IT IS
Fast Five is my fav movie bc that's when it just starts getting nuts, like Dom uses the forward momentum in his car to crash it into the side of a highway so that he can jump, catch Letty mid-air, and land on the hood of another car. At the time it was the best thing I'd ever seen but they've only gotten wilder since then. I was gonna say I recommend the entire series purely for the scene where the rock literally flexes his cast off but there's so many ridiculous moments to unpack besides that. The casts for these movies literally just keep getting better and better (and they're incredibly diverse so other franchises have no excuse). So yes bring Han back and also C-Tates, that's something I didn't know I needed until now. Thanks for saying literally everything in defense I've ever thought abt these movies
The Rock flexing his cast off is probably the best thing to happen to cinema this decade.
Patrick (H) Willems bruh my mind was blown at that scene
Janelle Rose I just couldn't stop laughing when Dom caught her in mid air. I had to go wash my face so I could stop laughing
that's the 6th one, not Fast Five
maxcoseti I realized that later and was praying nobody would point it out 😅
I would kill to see a Mad Max/FF cross over.
Same
How about, in this one, Charlize Theron loses her arm, and that's how she becomes Furiosa? The next movie: The Fast and the Furiosa. Finish with the full-blown crossover: The Fast and the Fury Road.
I like that this would mean the world would turn into a total wasteland in the span of, like, 3 years max.
BucketHatForever trump second term here we come!!!
BucketHatForever No ,autobots!
Alright, you made me want to watch these movies. Yet, if you had pitched this to me with any other framing device, I'm not sure you'd have convinced me. The tone you set just matches my expectations for the series so well.
"AXE BODY SPRAY OCEANS 11"...I'M CRACKING UP. That's perfect.
You’re the reason I’ve been obsessed with the fast and furious franchise for the past year. I own every movie and they’re my favourite thing in the world now. My friend Gavin and I even plan to watch them all together in a couple weeks so we can write the 10th. I’ve literally gotten dates by talking about the fast and furious. You’ve literally made my life better by showing me how amazing these movies are, and I am incredibly grateful for that. Thank you.
I'm never gonna get over "Han Seoul-Oh"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don skeng I didn’t get that part what was that all about
Han Solo
AnetteCB thanks
Came here for that comment
Oh god why did i not know this??? Han was like my favorite character 😭😂
"Time travel. One of them should be called 'The Past and the Furious'." 😂
Thanks for taking the time to make this video - I’m going to watch the rest of the movies and give the series a chance again.
who is here after the trailer where tej is in space
I am so happy I found you and this video. My friends always made fun of me for liking this franchise. Especially when I told them just how much I love the scene that has to happen in every fast & the furious movie, the sequence with the cars, the girls and the music. I still have to find the video that reunites them all, from the first to the last movie.
The Past and the Furious: Go back and save Han with a DeLorean (feat. time-car battles)
CastlesComments They should save Gisele (Gal Gadot). If they save Gisele, then she and Han can go to Tokyo together and they save Han from past Deckard and Deckard could fight himself.
So many great ideas in that last part. Riding on multiple rooftops, Space. And the mind-blowing that is "Past and the Furious". MAKE THIS HAPPEN UNIVERSAL!!!
The 2nd movie's story was stupid and kinda confusing, but it's one of my favorites.
It's so dumb, but so much fun.
This video is like marriage counseling for me and FATF. You pointed out all the great parts and I like the movies
I would love a crossover with The Avengers. Can you imagine Hulk vs The rock?
There's going to be 10 of these?! Thought they were gonna call it quits after this one. Can't complain though, Fast8 actually left me wanting for more, best set-pieces in the entire franchise.
I love all these movies. I'm such a big fan of the Fast and Furious movies.
They're really fun action movies. And it's one of the few long-running blockbuster franchises that has nothing to do with superheroes.
And I know you guys may not ask for it, but here's my thoughts on all 7 movies;
The Fast and The Furious- I like this movie, it's what got me into the franchise in the first place. Plus, it's a much better Point Break remake than the _actual_ 2015 remake.
2 Fast 2 Furious- My least favorite movie in the franchise. Bad Boys II was much better. But I still liked it, regardless.
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift- Out of all the crappy movies I saw in 2007, this felt like a _godsend_ to me. Sure, it wasn't great, but I prefer this over something like Ghost Rider or Alvin and the Chipmunks, ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
Fast and Furious- Again, like with 2007, 2009 had a lot of crap movies, but this is one of the better ones. While many people hate it, I still liked it.
Fast Five- An amazing movie that was one of my favorite movies of 2011. Awesomeness from beginning to end.
Fast & Furious 6- Everything I liked about Five, but turned up to Eleven. My favorite movie of 2013, in a long list of movies in 2013 that I liked (and no, Frozen is _NOT_ one of them) Seriously, that flip car was fucking awesome.
Furious 7- My favorite movie ever. This movie right here, is my Terminator 2. It's so fucking awesome. So many awesome action stuff and the Paul Walker tribute was one of the most heartwarming things I have ever seen in 2015.
I'm so excited for Fate of the Furious and I can't wait to see it, when it comes out.
Edit: Tokyo Drift came out in 2006, my mistake.
+Matthew Cool I actually kinda agree.
I like the Fast and Furious movies, dumb as they are.
But they're fun to watch, regardless.
+Matthew Cool Awesome, I have the same thoughts.
I love the Fast and Furious movies, they're total guilty pleasures to me. I love everything about them.
and I take them as comedies, lots of cheesy one liners, and the stunts are so funny and overblown, one of the main reasons I like these
List Update: Fate of the Furious (F8)- I liked it, but not as much as part 7. Hobbs & Shaw- A nice little spin-off and a pretty funny romp throughout.
Thank you so much for making this video!!! I have been extolling the self aware, sincere goofy virtues of this series since the fifth one sank its hooks into me. Hopefully this video will help me make more converts :D
And han is back.
Ending this with Rest of my life is such a nice touch. Reminds me of that one semester at Uni after F6 released where this was our hymn to start off a night out.
This made me subscribe. Thanks for this
Just came back from the new trailer and i gotta say, yes Han is back baby
I actually have a way to add Channing Tatum to the cast. It would be called Step Fast, Step Furious!
This is a masterpiece
Rock vs Vin fight was so awesome
I have not been able to make it through a single F&F film. No snob here, I love awful movies. I just... can't. I did however watch this whole video. I watched an entire video about movies I haven't seen because I cannot sit through them. That is a powerful testament. I loved this video, it is pretty much perfect. You are talented. Liked, subscribed, shared.
If you didn't tear up in the end of furious 7 then you have no understanding of the family aspect of F&F films.
But the fifth Mission Impossible movie was so good though.
IT'S SO GOOD. I really love that series. I could/might do a video like this for it.
Patrick (H) Willems Do it for family
Btw my M:I ranking: 5>1>4>3>2 (They're all good tho except 2)
Please do.
Was 2 the John Woo one... with the dancing motorcycles... I wanted to like that one so much... But... well...
Some of your ideas in the end are so cool, I desperately want them to be in the movies!
Back after the F9 trailer
Thank for expressing my thoughts on the surrealism of this franchise. Seriously, it should be study in film school - not because it's great, but because it's such a bizarre outlier in the path taken by 99% of movie franchises.
P.S. Just discovered this channel recently (thanks, UA-cam recommendation algorithm) and quite enjoy it. I have subscribed.
A few of his predictions came true
8:04 - 8:16
It hit my mind the moment I heard The Rock will be in Fast Five.
You sure know how to flesh out film franchises Patrick H. Willems. Have you done it on classics e.g., The Godfather, Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pulp Fiction? Would love to see it.
I was ignoring this series for long time until my mother send me FF8 trailer and start telling me how awesome this is. So, like 2 week ago, we made full marathon, with Tokio Drift after FF6 and holy shit I LOVE THIS
Cars, stunts, goofyness, family moments, characters (seriously Han
YES EXACTLY. Also your mom sounds awesome.
If the 10th one is not called FX, what was it all for?
OK man, I've found your channel recently but I'm a big fan already. I must say, you made me want to see this movies... now that's something for the books.
"And no one cares about CGI cars"
Initial D would beg to differ!
I used to watch Fast and Furious with my cousin who was obsessed with cars. But I haven't seen any since 3. You actually made me want to watch them now.
TEJ IN SPACE!!!!!
as a guy who likes cars, watching you talk about this is like watching my mom talk about video games. 10/10 def made me laugh
woow man!! I also Looove Han!! #bringHanback
#RIPHan
Vinicius Moura Hmm... I don't know, Kylo Ren's lightsaber impaled his chest and he fell down a ventilation shaft of a soon-to-be-destroyed planet. There's no way that Han would come back from that.
Never tell me the odds!
Tokyo Drift is so cheesy that is so good, my favorite btw. Ironically it has the lowest box office of them all.
Han's the best.
I agree 100%!!!. I started watching 1 to 5 in 2011 and i love the heist style in fast 5. Thats where they really started shining big time. So stoked for 9 and 10. Not every franchise has to be realistic and deep. It knows what it is and its great entertainment. Such a fun summer franchise!
DAMN IT... THAT ISN'T YOUR FAMILY! THAT IS SOME GOD DAMN BODY DOUBLES!
NOPE. MY ACTUAL PARENTS.
I come back to this video every once in a while just to enjoy Patrick's hilarious enthusiasm.
The Past of the Furious hahahaha
whenever I ask fellow fans what they most want from the series one of the first things they always bring up is "SPACE"
So. Space happened.
The fact that everything you said you wanted to see in future movies could potentially happen speaks to how great these movies are
Yo, this series.
This was one of those videos for me, man, where I was embarrassed the whole time about how much I agree with what you're saying. Tokyo Drift really does get a bum rap (although imo ppl who claim it's the secret best are over-correcting). These movies really are at their best when they're *sincere*, but not *serious*. Han really is the best character.
The first movie really is a Point Break ripoff, but the fifth movie is an even more egregious of a ripoff of Oceans 11... with the BIG caveat that it's waaay more entertaining than the movie it's ripping off! So theft justified, IMO!
Oh: 5 > 6 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 7 > 4
I actually don't think 5 is all that much of an Ocean's 11 rip. Assembling a big crew for a job is like every heist movie ever. If the villain was dating Letty and Dom was trying to get her back, THEN it would be an actual ripoff.
Also, 2 Fast in third? Bold statement.
"Ripoff" is strong, and I'll disclaim all this by reiterating that I like Fast 5 significantly more than Oceans 11, and that these are playful observations not accusations of plagiarism or anything.
But after re-watching both I was surprised at a lot of conspicuous similarities. It's not just the big story elements, like how they both rewind at the end to explain the safe/vault switch as Dwayne Johnson/Andy García pieces things together. It's also in little moments, and in side characters: Leo and Santos are essentially Puerto Rican mirror universe versions of the Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk. And both movies have RC car sequences played mostly for laughs.
And yes, I'm aware that my placement of 2 is controversial. But I enjoy these movies most when they keep the soap opera melodrama brief and sweet, and 2 Fast sidesteps that whole issue by having no melodrama at all.
Oh wow, I didn't even notice any of those connections. Maybe Chris Morgan DID just watch Ocean's 11 before writing and used a bunch of ideas. And honestly if he wants to just keep taking inspiration from Soderbergh movies, that's cool with me.
(I also really love the Ocean's movies)